Climate twins of Hanksville, UT

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Hanksville's. Each "twin" must be at least 140 miles away to avoid trivial near-neighbor matches. Similarity is computed across all 24 monthly metrics (12 average temperatures + 12 average precipitations), normalized so temperature and precipitation contribute equally.

Side-by-side: Hanksville vs its climate twin

Top match: Bloomfield, NM

Month Hanksville Bloomfield
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 43.1°F 15.2°F 0.40 in 43.4°F 20.6°F 0.66 in
February 51.2°F 21.1°F 0.39 in 50.3°F 25.2°F 0.57 in
March 63.8°F 28.9°F 0.47 in 60.8°F 30.6°F 0.57 in
April 70.8°F 35.3°F 0.45 in 68.8°F 37.2°F 0.67 in
May 81.1°F 44.4°F 0.43 in 78.2°F 45.9°F 0.49 in
June 93.4°F 52.7°F 0.23 in 89.3°F 55.5°F 0.21 in
July 98.7°F 60.9°F 0.71 in 92.4°F 62.1°F 0.72 in
August 95.2°F 58.3°F 0.57 in 89.7°F 60.3°F 1.11 in
September 86.3°F 47.9°F 0.83 in 82.8°F 52.4°F 0.99 in
October 71.5°F 35.1°F 0.87 in 70.5°F 40.3°F 0.80 in
November 55.7°F 23.6°F 0.47 in 55.6°F 28.6°F 0.72 in
December 42.9°F 15.0°F 0.34 in 43.8°F 20.9°F 0.57 in

Cities that consider Hanksville their climate twin

These US cities have Hanksville in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Hanksville would feel familiar.

How this is computed

Each city is represented by a 24-dimensional vector: 12 monthly average temperatures and 12 monthly average precipitations. Each dimension is z-score normalized across the population of US cities, so that temperature variance and precipitation variance contribute proportionally. Distance between cities is Euclidean. We filter out cities within 2° latitude/longitude (~140 miles) so that "twins" mean climatically similar but geographically distinct — not just the neighboring town. Full methodology →